Ancestry of
William Greenleaf Eliot

(1781–1853)

Andrew Eliot

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• • Grandfather of William Greenleaf Eliot — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Andrew Eliot 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Symonds   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 or 25 DEC 1718 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Sep 1778 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Langdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1742 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Eliot (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources state that Andrew Eliot was the son of a second wife of his father named Mary Herrick. However, his birth record states that his mother was named Ruth, the same as his father's first wife.

• Sources for Andrew Eliot

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, p. 129, Birth record for Andrew Eliot.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Samuel Eliot.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for son Samuel Eliot.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, pp. 45-46.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1876, Vol. 30, p. 35.
  • ⁶ Eliot, William H., Jr. and William S. Porter, Genealogy of the Eliot Family, New Haven, Connecticut: George B. Bassitt and Co. (1854), 171-172.
  • ⁷ Todd, Charles Burr, A General History of the Burr Family: With a Genealogical Record from 1193 to 1902, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1902), 185.